What was your first project and how did you get started? Curious how makers get started in their journey and learn the skills they need to create something.
Any advice for makers who have an idea but don't know where to start in the building journey?
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I built a developer productivity tool. It was a horrible mix of a Perl script glued onto a VB6 GUI. But it was fast, had few competitors and I sold over $100,000 of them.
Lessons learnt: code quality makes very little difference as long as your product "does what it says on the tin". Also the best way to learn how to code is to find a project that achieves some objective that is important in your life. For example after being cruelly made redundant I vowed never to be 100% reliant on somebody else for my income.
My first coding project was to build a theatre management system, I wrote the entire script in cpp and it was a fun sight to make my peers test it.
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So way back in the 80s, I made a character stat generator for AD&D in BASIC. It wasn't perfect, but I was young and quite proud of it.
My first coding project was code to decrypt text and figure out the cipher key used to encrypt the text.
For example,
H BC B RDZ decrypts to I AM A BOY
Was a C++ project making use of Reading dictionary(to figure out words) and used binary search to search if a word was a valid word in dictionary. This was back when i had no knowledge about Data Structures. Later figured out dictionary search could have been implemented using Trie's or could have made use of a HashMap as well haha.
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My first coding project started two years ago. I love building out websites; I got curious and learned front-end development. It's a long and winding journey, but I can assure you that it is worth it. My advice is that do what you love; the sky is the limit.
My first project is the AI-powered copywriting tool - https://ExtySolutions.com
It is made for all the entrepreneurs, marketers and copywriters out there to help write business and marketing copy, brainstorm ideas, and more.
Give it a shot!
Thanks for the question! @gabe__perez
So my first "product" I built was for the medical office of my parents. A simple phonebook application for DOS with fancy windows and tabs. It was my first serious program I wrote with lots of UI back at that time, and lot's of spaghetti code. But hey, it worked, and it was used for couple months until they bought something else from Microsoft. I was around 8 y.o. at that time.
My first business was a brick-and-mortar retail shop, that failed hilariously, but tought me lots of invaluable lessons back when I was 15 y.o.
Many tries and several years later my first profitable business was in Healthcare where we were doing warehouse automation for a few hospitals (this was a pre-HIPAA era). We were lucky enough to have more senior mentors coaching our team and myself in building business on top of the product after PMF phase.
By the way, let me know your opinion on distribution vs PMF question here: https://twitter.com/eugenehp/sta...
My advise for makers is to keep trying, build new things, **listen** to your target audience. Build a team, if you can, and have fun!
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